The Taming of the Bull

"I got myself out of the busy city and set up my family here on a little spread outside town with a picture of Oliver Sacks and his no sign hanging above my desk," he says. "Now that my writing day is done, I've got work to do on the farm, chickens to feed some donkeys to sneak carrots to and fences to inspect ... not unlike the plot of that zen poem about the taming of the bull"